Disturbance Observer Based Sliding Mode Control for Marine Diesel Engine

Abstract

In this work, a disturbance observer is designed to obtain the total disturbance including the unknown part, and the error system of the disturbance observer is proved to be finite-time convergence. Based on the total disturbance, a sliding mode controller with exponential reaching rule is proposed for the speed control system of a marine diesel engine. The performance of the proposed controller and the disturbance observer is tested by the simulations on a marine diesel engine model. It shows that the proposed disturbance observer can achieve satisfactory results, and both the control performance and the robustness of the DOSMC are superior to the PID controller.